Sir Keir Starmer is in a position that affords job security built into the role. No one can force him out of his office for just any old reason. He has to leave with a reason in toe that makes sense. It’s just the way of our constitution.
The rabble that are plotting in their own way against his tenure are playing a failing game. They don’t know how to replace him, hoping a moralistic, high ground type of request for a timetable will make sense to him. It’d be senseless to even consider it.
Labour usually doubts its electoral gains by suggesting the alternative leadership slate that didn’t stand in the first place. A circus of trolls that believe, having followed it for a bit, their revised program of events could win through.
Labour supporters – groups like unions included – want major wins in policy. They argue for the end of a crisis to prepare for a future landslide win. It’s concordant to their wing of politics. A new leader is a break in continuity, and the start of new issues.